Materials: Porcelain, granite rock, traditional Chinese porcelain glaze
Dimensions: H21.5cm 18×18cm
Exhibited at: DJCAD Degree Show 2024 (Dundee), Branching Out (Dundee Botanic Garden), SSA Annual Exhibition (RSA, Edinburgh)
A half slip-cast and half hand-built porcelain pot, decorated with a traditional Chinese porcelain glaze and a granite rock from the Cairngorms.
Once I glazed all the vessels with my traditional Chinese porcelain glaze, I started assigning materials to pots. I wanted the two to match in character. This piece was a challenge to make, with its many turns constantly collapsing. The struggle made the pot what it is. The material is granite taken directly from the Lairig Ghru pass (the cairn was left intact). Just as making the pot, putting one foot in front of the other to reach the pass was a fight as well. The path was rocky and covered in snow, it resembled the crooks on the pot when my foot would fall through the snow into the gaps between rocks. The weather wasn’t being nice to me either, but the experience was beautiful, as is this very deformed pot.
Materials: Porcelain, granite rock, traditional Chinese porcelain glaze
Dimensions: H21.5cm 18×18cm
Exhibited at: DJCAD Degree Show 2024 (Dundee), Branching Out (Dundee Botanic Garden), SSA Annual Exhibition (RSA, Edinburgh)
A half slip-cast and half hand-built porcelain pot, decorated with a traditional Chinese porcelain glaze and a granite rock from the Cairngorms.
Once I glazed all the vessels with my traditional Chinese porcelain glaze, I started assigning materials to pots. I wanted the two to match in character. This piece was a challenge to make, with its many turns constantly collapsing. The struggle made the pot what it is. The material is granite taken directly from the Lairig Ghru pass (the cairn was left intact). Just as making the pot, putting one foot in front of the other to reach the pass was a fight as well. The path was rocky and covered in snow, it resembled the crooks on the pot when my foot would fall through the snow into the gaps between rocks. The weather wasn’t being nice to me either, but the experience was beautiful, as is this very deformed pot.